Missing Page From Major Archimedes Manuscript Rediscovered In France
“A lost page from the Archimedes Palimpsest, among the oldest sources for the Greek mathematician in existence, has been discovered … at the Musée des...
Women-Owned Radio Stations And The Communities They’re Building
Whatever their mission and wherever their location, what the stations have in common is the amplification — literally and metaphorically — of women’s voices...
Player Pianos, Automation And AI
Nearly every major pianist of the early 20th century made music for these machines. Echoing AI commentary today, some musicians viewed the player piano...
Damage To Iran’s Historic Sites Mounts
The strikes on Isfahan on Monday came a week after another cultural icon, the Golestan Palace, was badly damaged during an attack on a police...
National Choreographers Initiative In Los Angeles Will End After This Summer
For two decades, NCI has offered four young choreographers the chance to spend three weeks creating works on professional dancers. In a Q&A, artistic...
What We Can Learn From Radical Access To The Arts
Access Fringe program at the Melbourne Fringe Festival is a 10-year partnership with Arts Access Victoria supporting d/Deaf and disabled artists through commissions, mentorships and...
Why Did The Boston Symphony Decide To Part Ways With Its Music Director?
Right now though, it’s anyone’s guess where the “future vision” of the BSO will take them – and if the relationship between the players...
Lessons From Sundance: New Focus On Artist Care
For all of the egregious consent violations in the film industry that the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements shone a light on, I was...
Pritzker Prize For Architecture 2026 Goes To Smiljan Radić Clarke Of Chile
Though The New York Times has described him as “a rock star among architects,” he’s not as famous as previous “starchitect” winners such as...
Change To Middle Passage Exhibit At Smithsonian’s African-American Museum
Since the National Museum of African-American History and Culture opened in 2016, its exhibit on the transport of millions of enslaved Africans to the...
Barack And Michelle Obama Are Now Broadway Producers
Higher Ground, their production company, is one of the main backers of this spring’s 16-week run of David Auburn’s Tony- and Pulitzer-winning play Proof,...
Bill Cosby May Be Out Of Jail, But He’s Not Out Of The Courtroom
The now-disgraced entertainer is facing a number of lawsuits (one of which began trial this week) in California by women who allege that Cosby...
Can Voice Of America Rebuild After Kari Lake Nearly Dismantled It?
“(A) source familiar with the matter suggested a ramp-up could occur within a matter of months, but that would mean a more nimble operation...
All About America, Good And Bad, At This Year’s Edinburgh International Festival
“It is the largest presentation of American artists in the history of the festival,” says director Nicola Benedetti. The program includes a residence by...
Historic Palaces In Iran Damaged By U.S. Bombing
“The most serious confirmed damage to date has been to Tehran’s Golestan Palace, dating back to the 14th century, and the 17th-century Chehel Sotoon...
The Once-Banned Street Music Of Afro-Uruguayans Has Leapt Back To Life
Candombe — not to be confused with candomblé, the syncretic religion created by Afro-Brazilians — was once confined to poor black neighborhoods in Montevideo....
What If A “Day Job” Is The Foundation Of An Artistic Career?
Rather than sticking our heads in the sand—and hoping that belief, alone, will be the source of motivation we need to succeed—what if we...
Shaker Dancing And Christian Spirituality
“Though Christianity’s relationship with dance remains tangled, the full-bodied nature of Shaker devotion, revolutionary in the 18th century, is now an ideal for some...
How Luxembourg’s Minister Of Culture Defended This Year’s Venice Biennale Entry
“The role of the state is not to filter works in the name of good taste,” Thill said, adding that art should challenge audiences...
Why You Can’t Love A Clone
Even if a new mug – or a clone – is identical to the original in every visible way, the fact that it is not the same alters...
Italy Pays €30 Million For Rare Portrait By Caravaggio
"The portrait, painted around 1598 and attributed to Caravaggio in 1963, depicts Maffeo Barberini, a nobleman who later became Pope Urban VIII. The painting...
Fighting Over Art And Politics Again (And Again)
Identity, even when mobilized as a force for visibility and justice, can shield art from critique—transforming dissent into offense and rendering criticism suspect. Questioning...
How Politics Made Contemporary Art Predictable And Dull
The ambition to explore every facet of the present was quickly replaced by a devout commitment to questions of equity and accountability. There was...
The Global Elite Have Given Up On Spelling And Grammar
The literary breaches, while trivial, highlight a reality that has become all too clear: There’s an inverse correlation between power and proper punctuation. - The...
Marseille Has A Thriving Artist Community. So Why Might The City Elect A Far...
If your experience of Marseille is limited to certain multicultural central neighbourhoods then it might be easy to assume that this is – and...
